Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate 2016
145minutes
Release Date
Original Title
海賊とよばれた男
Hong Kong Title
Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate
Plot Synopsis
Young Tetsuzo Kunioka rides out into the oil business, but is faced with numerous challenges and competitors who stand in his way. But Tetsuzo never gave up, however despairing the situation was. He always found a way and paved a new road with his unconventional ideas, eccentric actions, and most of all, his caring heart toward his own men. That style of Tetsuzo's was not something that would ever change, even when the tides were against him in a war-lost Japan. And finally, the "incident" that would come to shake the country which was devastated from the defeat of war, occurs. With the western "majors" getting hostile with Tetsuzo, all oil transportation routes were sealed off with besiegement on an overwhelming scale. Tetsuzo makes an "insane move" to ship his only large-scale oil tanker "Nissho Maru" to Iran in secret. Can "Nissho Maru" safely make it back to Japan? And why was Tetsuzo called a "pirate"? The answers to these questions unravel.